Price Quarry 3, Peirópolis (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Also known as Peirosaurus torminni type locality; Loma de la Lata

Where: Minas Gerais, Brazil (19.7° S, 47.8° W: paleocoordinates 23.3° S, 33.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Serra da Galga Formation (Bauru Group), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• Previously described as the Serra da Galga Member of the Marília Formation, but Serra da Galga now raised to the rank of formation (Soares et al. 2021)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; lenticular, fine-grained, yellow, argillaceous sandstone

• flood deposit or oxbow
• "fine yellowish sandstone and claystone" lens

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by L. I. Price in 1947-1949

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: L. I. Price. 1955. Novos crocodilídeos dos arenitos da Série Baurú, Cretáceo do Estado de Minas Gerais [New crocodilians from the Baurú Series sandstones, Cretaceous of Minas Gerais state]. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 27(4):487-498 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51629: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.06.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Reptilia
 Loricata - Peirosauridae
Peirosaurus torminni n. gen. n. sp.
Peirosaurus torminni n. gen. n. sp. Price 1955 crocodilian
DGM 433-R - holotype (cranial and postcranial bones)